Housing first… The Moonstone opens in Redondo Beach
Then there is the second, third, fourth things: primary care, mental health, socialization and employment — Moonstone case manager Richard Pacheco by Garth Meyer “Sometimes we need to have honest, frank conversations with our friends and neighbors about our friends and neighbors’ need for housing,” said L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, at a ribbon-cutting October 17 for The Moonstone, the first supportive housing project in the South Bay, at a former 20-room motel on PCH in Redondo Beach. “Housing is the solution to homelessness, it really is that simple… This is housing first. I fundamentally believe it’s the strategy that works,” Mitchell said. “This is what highlights the best of us,” said Redondo Beach City Councilmember Paige Kaluderovic. “Housed and unhoused, they are our neighbors… We are not shoving our problems onto others. I do have friends who live here.” Moonstone resident Jason Newton told the crowd of foster care as a child in Kentucky, instances of homelessness, then moving to Redondo Beach in 2020 and becoming homeless here. “The first few months I had nothing but a backpack and a job,” he said; at Kincaid’s at the Pier as a line cook, which he maintained. He…
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